DW Newbie; Template looks great, nothing else does.

[tradle]

Hey All -

Sorry if this is an easy one. I've scoured both this and the Fireworks forums and cannot find the right answer.

I've created a site template in DW and populated it with both Flash and Fireworks objects. In DW, when I view either the template or pages derived from the template, everything looks fantastic. When I view the HTML files independent of DW, I see nothing - boxes with red X's. I've read a few threads where the suggestion is to look at the properties of each object and see if the object resides where the properties indicate. Everything checks out there. I have a site created and the whole mess captured under the site's umbrella, as per the FAQ's in DW.

I'm unable to send code at this point because I'm at work, and the code is on my laptop at home. I'd be able to send code tonight if necessary. However, I sure would like a suggestion or two if anything becomes blatantly obvious to anyone who reads this message.

I'm a database developer - so please forgive my misgivings on this one!!!

Thanks for your help.
Tim

 

[lebisol]

boxes with red X's.
= image path is not right, or the image does not exist

check the code to make sure image(s) SRC=??? points to the right location.
Don't dispare, this should be an easy thing to trace...if you have problems post some more.
All the best!

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[tradle]

Thanks lebisol -

I found a thread where you had suggested this resolution in my previous hunt for an answer. I thought everything had looked correct when I looked at the pathing. Is there a difference performance-wise between using direct pathing or relative pathing within DW?

I will definitely post more tonight if necessary.

Kind Regards -
Tim

 

[DaRNCaT]

to ensure you defintly have the right path, type out your whole URL into it, ie

http://www.yourdomain.com/path-to-image

also check to make sure you are using swf's not fla's, and suchlike.
It certainly sounds like the path to the image is wrong, so try to use direct path linking to ensure the object exisits, and double check by putting the direct link into a webpage and seeing if it finds your object directly.

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Sometimes, when my code just won't behave, I take it outside and make it listen to britney spears music, and when it comes back it's really well behaved. I wonder if it's suffering from post tramatic stress syndrome now..

 

[Cheech]

And make sure that the images have been uploaded to your testing/live server. I know that sounds obvious but it gets missed a lot.

Cheech

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[lebisol]

side note:
there was a "hotfix" from MS for IE 5.x that caused this problem :-( .....regardless of the correct code my testing server was doing the same thing=rejecting to load Images or loading a few randomly selected ones....update of IE fixed their "fix".
Also, some pop-up blockers and soft-firewalls are "not that intelligent" or misconfigured and can process JavaScript rather messy making your rollovers behave in simmilar manner.
Again, it could be something simple as mentioned above...
All the best!

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ok,ok...I did shoot the deputy but he told me he was the sheriff!
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